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Zimbabwean Government Could Allow China's G60 Starlink Instead Of SpaceX's Starlink

1 year agoWed, 03 Jan 2024 06:45:41 GMT
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Zimbabwean Government Could Allow China's G60 Starlink Instead Of SpaceX's Starlink

The Zimbabwean government is looking at different internet service providers, not just SpaceX’s Starlink. They are also considering other internet service providers such as China’s G60 Starlink to potentially operate in the country. There have been increasing calls, particularly in 2023, for Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services, and the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) to authorise Starlink’s operations in the country. Supporters of this move argue that internet service providers in Zimbabwe offer expensive packages with poor internet speeds.

The government has responded by stating that Starlink had not formally applied for authorisation to operate in Zimbabwe. Later, Information Minister Jenfan Muswere said Starlink had applied for authorisation but no more update was given. Meanwhile, neighbouring countries like Zambia have already authorized Starlink, leading some Zimbabweans to create accounts in those neighbouring countries to access Starlink services.

Amid these calls for Starlink’s authorisation, George Charamba, the Presidential Spokesperson, has mentioned that Starlink is not the only contender being considered. When responding to a similar request regarding the authorisation of Starlink, Charamba stated that decisions have already been made regarding services like Starlink. In a post seen by Pindula News, Charamba added:

The Chinese are about to, or have already launched a similar service.

He added that the alleged failures of Econet shouldn’t be the basis of Zimbabwe’s public policy on data, just as the weaknesses of its competitors shouldn’t be either. Charamba said public policy is determined by considerations of “sovereignty, state security, and the breaking of monopolies and oligopolies” in providing public services. Zimbabwe and China have ties dating back to the colonial era when the Asian country trained the former’s freedom fighters.

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Charamba added that while it’s true that affordable data is important for the economy, it doesn’t mean it’s directly tied to any one company, even if they claim to be promoting liberalisation of the data market.

China is developing its own satellite mega constellation called G60 Starlink to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink. G60 Starlink aims to have over 12,000 satellites in low Earth orbit, similar to China’s National Network project, which consists of approximately 13,000 satellites. Construction of the National Network is currently underway, overseen by the state-owned company Guo Wang.

In December 2023, the first satellite for G60 Starlink was produced in Shanghai. The plan is to launch 108 satellites in 2024 out of a total of 12,000. The project is managed by Shanghai Gesi Aerospace Technology, and funding has been raised through the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai government investment vehicles.

The G60 Starlink project envisions 36 polar orbital planes, each with 36 satellites, providing broadband access services globally. China is investing in this project to rival SpaceX’s Starlink, which has already deployed thousands of satellites and acquired millions of active customers.

China’s interest in developing its satellite mega-constellations is driven by concerns about potential surveillance from foreign companies like SpaceX and the desire to have strategic advantages in outer space. 

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33 Comments

Anonymous · 1 year ago
Lol so we wait for a product which won't even be finished and ready in 2024 when Starlink is already up and running. What a load of crap
Anonymous · 1 year ago
No to this american company
Ney · 1 year ago
Hopeless people always on fighting mode, looting everything, blocking chamisa, no way forward for the people, zanu is a cancer to Zimbabwe you will learn to know later
Anonymous · 1 year ago
No to Americans. They are dangerous. To be in government one has to be clever and not just take everything on board. Yes the issue of security is very important, it is of paramount importance. If you are just an ordinary person you may not understand why American companies in this industry are not welcome at moment in time.
Pik · 1 year ago
Getaway mbava, zanu is a big problem in Zimbabwe, if you don't know that, you are not a Zimbabwean, zanu is ruling by force, zanu want to make sure people will suffer, that's why they a blocking chamisa and create vendor conman chabangu, support zanu at your own's risk
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Yeah..the government is right..these Americans will use it as a tool for sanctions when ever they want
Anonymous · 1 year ago
These American companies no ..kana akangofunga yawo to withdraw munyika menyu misstated muchitamba nhasi ..China is an all weather partner
Anonymous · 1 year ago
G60 starlink ndizvo chaizvo…pasi nema American companies
Mugo · 1 year ago
Vanongo funga zvehondo chete
imi · 1 year ago
ko kungoshandisa zvese,,,,
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🚩 · 1 year ago
Let's not allow the dumping of cheap Zhingzhong technologies in Zimbabwe. Chinese goods are inferior to the Western goods... they don't last.
· 1 year ago
FAW = For A Week 🤣🤣🤣
🧐 🤔 🤨 🙄 🤪 · 1 year ago
The advantage of G60 its endowed with latest of latest technological advancement, unlike this already run down Space X, You see that just the good advantages of coming to meet technology at a later stage, you become more advanced than the first worlds This constellation of x factor would occupy a lower level ionosphere which would definitely reach out coverages globally in no delay its a battle front tisingazive kuti zvimwewo Zvidobi zve G60 zvineyi but I wish it would be medical and tracking mbavha, I say 👍 Econet should have been the one on this G60 initiative
😒😒😒 · 1 year ago
How **** can you be?why wait for tomorows tech when its available right now? And you really think the chinese wont turn around and milk us after dethrowning econet?
NANO MBUTUMANIA · 1 year ago
So our kids will have to shelf their CALAs till G60 Starlink is commissioned in China and then registered by Potraz in Zim. Its a shame that our kids are joining the zombie world because of the need to safeguard one's political powret
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🧐 🤔 🤨 🙄 🤪 · 1 year ago
The advantage of G60 its endowed with latest of latest technological advancement, unlike this already run down Space X, You see that just the good advantages of coming to meet technology at a later stage, you become more advanced than the first worlds This constellation of x factor would occupy a lower level ionosphere which would definitely reach out coverages globally in no delay its a battle front tisingazive kuti zvimwewo Zvidobi zve G60 zvineyi but I wish it would be medical and tracking mbavha, I say 👍 Econet should have been the one on this G60 initiative
Xxx · 1 year ago
We are in trouble with this zanu pf government, quality of discussions is poor.
Putin · 1 year ago
So G60 Will also not spy..... The truth is G60 will spy on behalf of zanu pf
putin 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🐊🐊🐊 · 1 year ago
you can talk and talk, chero ikavepo hamuna mari madinga epa pindula
Kaiser Sozés · 1 year ago
fool recognizes fool
Zvinopera chete tichakuvudzai · 1 year ago
these guys they want to sound as if they know everything,it's not a matter of relationships going back to the wasted years. talking about development introducing big names and companies will pave way for other invistors. kuwomesa mumsoro nezvinhu zvisina pasa dzinodzosera nyika kumas****, okunye so
. · 1 year ago
kumashu.re backawrds in English pindula
Shepherd Chikara · 1 year ago
we need network ,do it
. · 1 year ago
these Chinese friends of yours George have no original ideas, they just come up with fake products & dump them to ediots like you
Herr Flinks of the Gestapo · 1 year ago
just authorise SpaceX why wait for China when SpaceX is running fine nxaaaaa
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mampentsha · 1 year ago
so we are going to wait for China to launch for us to enjoy low data tariffs? these fools! life is lived once nor can it be postponed as we await China to launch. uku kwakufa tichingori pa Pindula yema CIO.
laugh emoji1
Rudo💅 · 1 year ago
🙆
😜😜😜😜😜 · 1 year ago
Ko mandla
😜😜😜😜 · 1 year ago
😁😁😁😁😁
T.' · 1 year ago
it better be cheap and fast
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